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in war, and if the Red Brothers had never seen 

 any before I don't wonder they thought them 

 made of stone. But please go on what did 

 Sacoit do with the arrows ? " 



" When it grew dark he slipped between the 

 trees and going to the lodge entered the largest 

 trap-hole. I thought he would surely be caught, 

 but he was fearless. In the lodge were many 

 Stone Giants sitting about a long flat board raised 

 from the ground, but they did not sit upon skins 

 spread on the earth like warriors, but were raised 

 high above it." 



" Of course, soldiers would sit on chairs and 

 benches," said Anne. 



" They had no spears or bows and arrows with 

 them, but beside each rested a strange stick in 

 which, I soon learned, they held Ishkodah, the 

 fire-tailed Comet. 



" When Sacoit entered he threw the skin of 

 Crotalus before the one that seemed the chief of 

 these Stone Giants ; then he began to talk in sign 

 language, and wrath shone from his face and from 

 the faces of the others. Only Sacoit, the Messen- 

 ger, was silent and immovable. 



" All night long they argued, and at dawn they 

 gave the messenger food which he did not touch, 

 and the chief Giant, emptying the arrows from the 



